Life is a Highway - it’s the journey, not the destination

I turn 30 next week and I’m away from tomorrow until after my birthday so this will be the last post I make as a 20-something. I always thought I’d dread getting to 30 but actually I’m ok about it, helps that most of my friends are already there and James has been there for 4 years almost. *grin* Can’t believe that when I first came on to the home ed scene and met some of my now very good friends I was only 23! A little baby

I managed to forget loads of stuff yesterday when I blogged which goes to show that what I write doesn’t neccessarily amount to all of the ‘educational’ stuff we do or even what I deem to be most worthy if you like. Maybe I should do an Alison type disclaimer

M has been doing lots of lego building lately. He doesn’t do buildings or structures but always comes up with weird and wonderful spaceships or cars. He’s quite good at it really Yesterday he was taking pictures of some of them to send to the Lego club magazine that came through the door the other day. I really ought to buy some lego wheels for them as they’ve lost loads and I’m sure he’d concentrate more on some car designs if he had more wheels!

We *finally* finished up George’s Secret Key to the Universe this morning after starting it months ago. We’ve really let read alouds slip lately which is a shame. I think I should try more. They really liked it and can’t wait for the new one to come out (actually amazon is showing it’s already available. Will have to reserve at the library).

We ventured to the local shops today to return some library books and pick up some ordered ones (I love being able to order in books from the whole of the city libraries for free!) and returned the lost audio book and was refunded my fine - yipee! Also managed to get my new glasses adjusted as they were too tight and were causing terrible headaches last weekend so I’d gone back to my old ones till now. They’re much better anyway but will keep my old one’s on me for the time being.

After being there they played lots of imaginary games together involing lego and littlest pet shops. I dilly dallied about getting clothes ready for the coming week. We did try some more nrich interactive things. M started so very well but got really annoyed at one thing (the negative numbers swimming pool thing), he seems to just not want to try anything new He did do very well at the representation section (Oct 2008) and did the Find the difference and ladybird box one with no strops A had a go as well and also did some stuff on shapes and overlaps. Think I need to do some sneaky maths so M doesn’t realise what it is

I forgot to blog about last weekend I think. A was helping collect money for her local Badger unit (St John’s Ambulance) at a local supermarket. They were supposed to be helping pack bags, but I wonder if they didn’t get enough people as in the end they just were standing with a bucket collecting donations. She enjoyed it anyway. She is really loving badgers at the moment and I think it’s telling that James is also v. impressed at it as well having spoken to several of the cadets who all seem lovely and polite some good role models hopefully!